On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:52:34 -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > In FreeBSD it's possible to have multiple versions of say, tcl/tk, which > is infamous for incompatible versions. It does this by installing each as > [package_name].[version]. > > Couldn't Debian do something like this?
Debian does something like this. See e.g. the packages for the various versions of Tcl/Tk, or the standard C++ library, or libdb. For Python a policy to allow multiple versions to coexist in a sane fashion was developed only recently, and not all packages have been updated to follow that policy, so occasionally problems like yours still occur. HTH, Ray -- Give a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.
